Dracula’s Return (Dungeon) - Battle to earn X Factor Eddie and the Edless Horseman!

[Leviathan]

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Halloween has arrived, and with it comes a new Sleepy Hollow themed dungeon and terrifying new characters.

Collect the long awaited X Factor Eddie. X Factor Eddie is an Ability Disabler that specializes in manipulating power and fury resources for both you and your opponent. He also topped our fan polls for most requested Eddie 2 years in a row.

Beware The Edless Horseman! This gruesome specter sits astride a hellish steed and sows chaos wherever he rides. The explosive pumpkin head he wields was designed by none other than Iron Maiden fanatic, and director of The Hallow, The Nun, and Gangs of London, Corin Hardy!

Learn more about both of these characters in the Compendium.

From now until November 2nd at 4PM PT, ride into the haunted hills of our Halloween dungeon! This dungeon comes with 4 difficulty settings and a new pun filled storyline! Dracula is BACK and hosting his usual annual spooky soiree, with a murder mystery twist! Can you crack the case?!

The first time you complete Normal, Hard or Madness, you will earn set rewards including:

Halloween Souls
Lantern Talismans (Onslaught Subtype)

Your first Insanity run will grant T3 2★ Cosmic Evo Runes and Talisman Epic Soul Fragments.

All subsequent victories are guaranteed to provide:

Halloween Soul Fragments
Dungeon Fragments
A chance of up to 2 bonus rewards, including: Singularity Talismans (Sorcery Subtype).

Halloween Souls can be earned in 4 ways:


Earn them as first time completion rewards in the Normal, Hard and Madness levels of the event Dungeon.
Earn Soul Fragments every time you completed a dungeon run. The higher the difficulty, the more fragments you will receive.
Complete Event Challenges! Getting 200 fragments will earn you a complete Soul, with up to 10 Souls that can be earned from challenges over the course of the event.
Purchase them in store for Ironite in the usual bundle sizes of 1, 3, or 10.


In addition to Halloween Soul Fragments, completing event challenges will grant various other rewards, including new Rot Talismans (Mystical Subtype) and Equilibrium Fragments!

Rot Talismans are a green talisman with a 4-set effect. Equipping this set will do the following:

Immune to all Crave, Heal Block and Permadeath effects, including Silver and Innate effects. Permanently Increase Max HP on self by +100%. Inflict Bloodlust, Grievous Burn, Toxic Burn or Stop on a random enemy for 2 turns when you take damage. Take Additional True Damage equal to 5% of your MAX HP at the start of your turn. Heal self based on your MAX HP and MISSING HP and inflict Crave or Perfect Crave on each enemy for 1 turn after every action. Once per battle, Revive with Full HP and inflict Unblockable Stun and Innate Crave on a random enemy until they die upon death.



Equilibrium Fragments are the event currency of our Forbidden Knowledge Clan Mega event that is running until January.

Trade your Equilibrium Fragments in the Event Store for rare rewards including Baphomet, Rare Talismans and more!

You can learn more about this featured event in the Forbidden Knowledge event post here! (https://forum.ironmaidenlegacy.com/showthread.php?13883-Forbidden-Knowledge-Mega-Event-Info-and-Discussion)



Halloween Soul Details!

The Halloween Soul is a limited time event soul which guarantees a 3★ to 5★ character of any class. This soul has an increased chance of summoning Halloween characters such as werewolves, The Count Dracula, Vampire Hunter Eddie and more! It also has an exclusive chance of summoning X Factor Eddie and The Edless Horseman.

Each Halloween Soul summoned will also grant the following bonus rewards:

10 X Factor Eddie Soul Fragments
10 Edless Horseman Soul Fragments
10 Mythical Soul Fragments
20 Talisman Gold Red Soul Fragments


Collecting 1000 X Factor Eddie Soul Fragments guarantees a 5★ Magus X Factor Eddie!

Collecting 750 Edless Horseman Soul Fragments guarantees a 5★ Gunner The Edless Horseman!

400 Talisman Gold Red Soul Fragments guarantees a Tier 1 to Tier 3 Gold or Red Cosmic Talisman and 5★ Gold Idol.



Event Store Additions:

Use your extra Halloween Soul Fragments to trade for Cosmic Lantern and Soul Talismans, Heroic Legendary Souls and more
Get 1, 3 and 10 packs of Halloween Souls for Ironite
Get another full set of Rot or Lantern Talismans, along with Sands of War, Ironite and some Gold!
Trade in Ironite to pick up Rot, Singularity or Lantern Talisman Finisher Packs
Grab an additional boost of Soul Fragments to trade for more items in the Event Store. This Fragment Mega Pack also contains Talisman Soul Fragments, Frontier Coins, Ironite and more!
Pick up the Gunner and Magus Power Up Packs to strengthen your newest characters




Dungeon Fragment Details:

Dungeon Fragments will drop in event Dungeons. Use Dungeon Fragments to purchase items found within the Dungeon Tab of the Rewards store. You can continue collecting and building your stockpiles of Dungeon Fragments with each Dungeon event.

Please note that the items available for Dungeon Fragments disappear between dungeon events. They will reappear again with the same items available the next time a dungeon event is held.

Since these Fragments are meant to be spent in store, they cannot be converted to Precious Soul Fragments and will ‘loop’ if you claim a Dungeon Soul (if claimed, a Dungeon Soul will simply produce 1000 Dungeon Fragments, and 1 1★ Gold Idol, thus returning the fragments used to create it, and the Gold spent to summon it).

[Fudjo]

I like this event.

[Hank93]

Double Whammy for Double chars. Sacrifice event should've given enough Ironite to secure both to anyone who put enough effort in it, given that you buy the Souls.

Also a return of one of the versions of the Count, and a fan favorite at that, since Dracula hits like a truck. Also, nice opportunity to earn Lanterns (and for me to scream that you let the Beast get the extra turns it used to. Lanterns+Warlord+cosmic should give tons yet gives almost none) and singularities.

The Rot tali seems...eh. I like the new Lust and Gluttony talis in that they have a chance to mess you up, but give huge boosts, but Rot's only drawback, the 5% damage is offset by the health on action, especially since Echo and Thor/Clansman/Red Bat/Sekhmet/Wickerman/Moonchild exist and can just give you extra turns to play with. If it worked more like Ferryman in that you are slowly fading away but get boosts to kill the enemy before that, it would feel better. It's not like healing sources are rare. Also, why increase Max HP, it should decrease it, it makes the wearer rot.

[Brickster]

That event image is truly a frightful piece of art, I love it.

Glad to see X Factor Eddie finally make it into the game!

[Mario.Ahner]

This dungeon again meets NF ZERO-QUALITY-STANDARDS, crash after crash.

This is not acceptable when I see the SOT-costs.

WTF is NF doing, are you only working 30min per day on this game???? Otherwise all those ridiculous bugs are not explainable.

[Barthax]

I've been runinng the new dungeon on auto battle for hours without any hiccup. It's probably a specific animation to avoid for this dungeon.

[Beddie]

This dungeon again meets NF ZERO-QUALITY-STANDARDS, crash after crash.

This is not acceptable when I see the SOT-costs.

WTF is NF doing, are you only working 30min per day on this game???? Otherwise all those ridiculous bugs are not explainable.

The hell are you running this game on? A rock or something?

[Muzzleloader]

What team and which dungeon are you running.?

[AndyCatzo]

This dungeon again meets NF ZERO-QUALITY-STANDARDS, crash after crash.

This is not acceptable when I see the SOT-costs.

WTF is NF doing, are you only working 30min per day on this game???? Otherwise all those ridiculous bugs are not explainable.

Almost 400 runs in insanity and not a single crash, what are you talking about?

[Phoenix-7282]

Nice event. Challenges aren't too demanding and it is possible to get the characters by both grinding or ironite purchases.

[Brickster]

Got X Factor Eddie, he's amazing.

One note that might be important for some people. His fury animation is pretty intense and the amount of spinning and flickering going on on the screen might be a bit too much for some people? I'm talking health wise.
Maybe I'm just talking nonsense, I don't know, but I wanted to put that out there regardless.

[Maiden]

Thanks for the event and the Dungeon, nice drops and that pleasure of blow up the enemies after a dad-joke! "fur-give me" hahah

BTW +1 to X Factor fury animatiion being a little on the edge maybe. Just careful there.

[MuzakMaker]

Plenty of good things to talk about with this event/dungeon


Class specific challenges aren't too bad. Only 8 runs each and insanity requires Warrior which is one the more fleshed out classes allowing for a multitude of toons/talismans
Multiple routes to get the Edless and X Factor and of all which drop frags for those toons meaning we don't have to rely solely on luck *glares at Skuld*
Insanity is appropriately hard while still allowing for plenty of combinations for success with similar speeds and success rates
Each difficulty is progressively more rewarding in terms of event goals. This should always be the case but too often I find myself switching to normal partway through the event as pure amount of runs becomes more important than anything else



As far as the claim of connection issues, I was able to run insanity all night on auto with no issue.

To quote Fudjo "I like this event"

[MotleyLew]

I can "kinda" confirm some crashing. I've been auto running for awhile with no issues. then I started playing with different chars and talis. I've had 5 consecutive crashes on the second level of insansity with:
Cyborg: valhalla and the cyborg cosmic
Alchemist: Starfire
Raven Which: Yin and Yang
Wickerman: Viper/Cosmic

I wouldn't call this a catastrophic failure on the devs part. BUT...it is consistent with that lineup. I guess it's a good thing there are tons of character and tali combos to choose from!

[Azagthor]

I like this event. Despite missing most of the first day due to one of my hard drives dying on me :(


Let's start with the event challenges. Nice and straight forward, with an infinitely repeatable 75 run goal to help with farming. Those new Rot talismans should be obtainable for most people. Was a little surprised how low the run count was compared with usual dungeon events, but it fits in with the dungeon costing twice the usual amount of SoT. Don't worry too much though, while it is twice the cost, you also get twice as many chances for bonus rewards, so it evens out nicely. If you can farm Insanity, you're looking at around 600 runs for a guaranteed X Factor Eddie, and another 150 runs for each T3 cosmic you're after. Not too bad.

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How about the dungeon itself? Lots of Yggdrasils and Labyrinths to deal with. Here is what you'll face in Insanity. It's not as bad as it looks. I have no doubt people will come up with plenty of different viable teams over the next couple of days.


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[HuckFinn150]

Game just totally crashed. Black screen and gone.

[Nifelheim]

Any speed team recommendations?

[seneuk]

Hello Troopers
A question
What do you prefer?
Get the T3 paranoia talisman
Or try to get the X-factor Eddie? (more expensive)?
Is this talisman good enough to spend 4000frags?
Thank you

[IronMaster]

Any speed team recommendations?

Press Strategy button in dungeon

[Maiden]

Hello Troopers
A question
What do you prefer?
Get the T3 paranoia talisman
Or try to get the X-factor Eddie? (more expensive)?
Is this talisman good enough to spend 4000frags?
Thank you

Paranoia is not one of the Cosmics from Dracula dungeon, those are Cosmic Soul and Cosmic Lantern. Cosmic Lantern can be a good talisman but some of the toons who can work better with Lantern have already their own Cosmic Bespoke, like Daedalus. So a regular lantern set would work better on him IMO. Soul has some strategic uses as well. Both are ok but they aren't game changers. Being said that I'd go for X Factor ed and in the way you pick up the Horseman and I'd try to pick up at least one t1 of each.

[seneuk]

Thanks for your answer

[RonAMok]

yep crashing non-stop. no rhyme or reason either - could be dracula dungeon (Insanity is the main culprit), skull quests, BoS. every time i go to raise a support ticket it crashes!!

reckon i've lost at least 500 SoT over last two days. compo pack anyone?

[EnricoPalazzo]

I can see a rough pattern for the crashes:
1. on my rather high end mobile (Galaxy S10), I have yet to see one, the game is running smooth
2. on my emulator (a LOT weaker, or my notebook fan is driving me crazy), I can see crashes in Insanity (did not try anything else)
3. This happens with the same team that works on my mobile (Oni/Assassin Odin/Beast/Horus) from time to time, but much more regularly if I swap the Beast with Raven Witch.
So my best guess is that it's a performance issue, probably triggered by special effects.
But overall, I have no complaints, I like this event and I think the scaling up to Insanity was done quite well this time.

[Barthax]

I've reached 300+ frags each for the two new chars & it feels like I'm onto a deadbeat task. So I did some calculations & got flabbergasted. Could someone check my maths:

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[Azagthor]

I've reached 300+ frags each for the two new chars & it feels like I'm onto a deadbeat task. So I did some calculations & got flabbergasted. Could someone check my maths:

Your maths is correct, although there are a couple of things you've missed which help reduce the overall ironite cost. Your general flabbergastery isn't unwarranted though, it is quite expensive if you're unable to farm Insanity.

* You'll get 16 Halloween souls through first time completion rewards and the event challenges. This means you only need to farm an additional 16,800 fragments for the remaining 84 souls to guarantee X Factor Eddie.
* The dungeon can drop additional halloween fragments. While RNG can be fickle, this usually increases the effective frag per drop rate by one or two. For Madness, I don't believe it's unreasonable to assume an average of 18 per run while doing these sort of calculations.
* The dungeon can drop ironite. While the chances are low, Madness drops 10 at a time, which adds up over the course of hundreds of runs. Based on previous event dungeons, an assumption of 0.8 ironite per Madness isn't too out there.
* The infinitely repeatable event challenge gives you 25 ironite every 75 runs. While not much, over the hundreds of runs needed to guarantee these characters, it will help out.
(There are other things, like the small amounts of SoT and ironite that can drop on the Victory screen, but I've not yet worked out how to reliably predict those)

Taking all of those assumptions into consideration, I'd estimate the ironite cost for Madness is 3620. For comparison, I have Insanity at ~2900.
(rough working for you to check: 16,800 fragments, 18 per run, 933.333 runs, 4666.666 ironite, with 746.666 returned as drops, and 300 from event challenge)



Having said all that, I obviously hope we all get lucky and pull the characters from the souls before reaching 100 souls :p

[Muzzleloader]

On insanity after all rewards each 10 souls cost about 300 ironite. So about 2700 ironite to earn both event toons. If you have the proper teams this event is one of the easier and cheapest frag grind event in awhile.it is also nice to coincide with a sac event to drop those souls for essence.

[Tim28213]

I have had quite a few crashes as well in Dracula's Return.

Cybrg-grail/serenity/bespoke
Assassin Odin-forge/cosmic special+25%
Dark Lilith-serenity/sacred/mark
Empress Regnant Eupatoria-serenity/armor pen/bespoke
Ran between 1:23 to 2 minutes when it worked.

I noticed that when I run troopers in the Eddie passenger seats I get crashes. Not every time, but I could run an entire SoT mega-refill with no crashes not running any passengers. As soon as I turn on Trooper Auto I started getting crashes again.
This happened on both an older iPad air, and a newer one. I wouldn't think it is a hardware issue on the newer device (less than a year old)
I also got fewer crashes when I had Eupatoria in the 3rd position instead of the 4th slot. I got crashes, but not as many.

Resolution was to stop using this team and I've been able to run through the dungeon fine.

[Barthax]

Your maths is correct, although there are a couple of things you've missed which help reduce the overall ironite cost. Your general flabbergastery isn't unwarranted though, it is quite expensive if you're unable to farm Insanity.

* You'll get 16 Halloween souls through first time completion rewards and the event challenges. This means you only need to farm an additional 16,800 fragments for the remaining 84 souls to guarantee X Factor Eddie.
* The dungeon can drop additional halloween fragments. While RNG can be fickle, this usually increases the effective frag per drop rate by one or two. For Madness, I don't believe it's unreasonable to assume an average of 18 per run while doing these sort of calculations.
* The dungeon can drop ironite. While the chances are low, Madness drops 10 at a time, which adds up over the course of hundreds of runs. Based on previous event dungeons, an assumption of 0.8 ironite per Madness isn't too out there.
* The infinitely repeatable event challenge gives you 25 ironite every 75 runs. While not much, over the hundreds of runs needed to guarantee these characters, it will help out.
(There are other things, like the small amounts of SoT and ironite that can drop on the Victory screen, but I've not yet worked out how to reliably predict those)

Taking all of those assumptions into consideration, I'd estimate the ironite cost for Madness is 3620. For comparison, I have Insanity at ~2900.
(rough working for you to check: 16,800 fragments, 18 per run, 933.333 runs, 4666.666 ironite, with 746.666 returned as drops, and 300 from event challenge)



Having said all that, I obviously hope we all get lucky and pull the characters from the souls before reaching 100 souls :p

Thanks for the check & confirm. Yes, there's a bout 2100 frags I missed from the static rewards + the 75 run drops too.

OK, I'm out. :P

[Mateja]

When you do the math it looks scary but in practice it's not too bad. After getting X Factor Ed through frags, I'm only 2-2.5k ironite down. All runs on insanity except the 45 for class challenges.

[Geodude]

When you do the math it looks scary but in practice it's not too bad. After getting X Factor Ed through frags, I'm only 2-2.5k ironite down. All runs on insanity except the 45 for class challenges.

I'd like to just farm insanity, but with my somewhat limited toons, I tried sh*tloads of different combos, and still can't get it below 3-4 mins/win on auto, so it'll take forever to get him. So I'll be doing a mix of insanity and madness (<1min/run). Cost a bit more doing it this way, but much quicker.

Any other magic bullet suggestions that might get that run time down? Checked the in-game strategies, but don't have all the max awakened toons.

[MarkyMark]

I had crash issues running on an iPhone 8, maybe every 20 runs or so, with GRE it would freeze on his basic attack.

Switched to Dark Road Ed and have had no issues. Also much faster clear times.

[MarkyMark]

I'd like to just farm insanity, but with my somewhat limited toons, I tried sh*tloads of different combos, and still can't get it below 3-4 mins/win on auto, so it'll take forever to get him. So I'll be doing a mix of insanity and madness (<1min/run). Cost a bit more doing it this way, but much quicker.

Any other magic bullet suggestions that might get that run time down? Checked the in-game strategies, but don't have all the max awakened toons.

The main thing that makes this dungeon slow are the blockers, revivals and VHE's passive on the first wave. Dark Road Ed is very effective because his passive neutralises the blockers, combine with a decent passive disabler (I'm using Ghost of the Navigator but Prisoner or Madam Fortune could also do the job) and the run-times will drop significantly. If you've got MA Dark Lilith she's also useful as she'll block the revives. Or you could use Killer Prime as his passive inflicts permadeth.

[MuzakMaker]

I had crash issues running on an iPhone 8, maybe every 20 runs or so, with GRE it would freeze on his basic attack.

Switched to Dark Road Ed and have had no issues. Also much faster clear times.

I've noticed significantly less issues with this app once I stopped using GRE. Not just in this dungeon but everywhere. Something about him just makes the game forget how to run.

[HuckFinn150]

Developer's, please never fix the bugs. This is helping me beat my addiction to this game.

[Nifelheim]

I'd like to just farm insanity, but with my somewhat limited toons, I tried sh*tloads of different combos, and still can't get it below 3-4 mins/win on auto, so it'll take forever to get him. So I'll be doing a mix of insanity and madness (<1min/run). Cost a bit more doing it this way, but much quicker.

Any other magic bullet suggestions that might get that run time down? Checked the in-game strategies, but don't have all the max awakened toons.

I don’t have a team for the warrior achievement, but this one gave me best time 1:38 with minimal max awakened characters:
Dark road Eddie w/ envious, bespoke
Empress regnant w/ ragnarok, bespoke
Beast w/ yin, warlord, bespoke
Dark lillith w/ archer, usual

Only dark lillith is maxed. Usually run her with prudence but archer works better. Also order matters, beast was dying a bit first round when he was last, but took labyrinth off him and switched places with d lillith.

[Geodude]

The main thing that makes this dungeon slow are the blockers, revivals and VHE's passive on the first wave. Dark Road Ed is very effective because his passive neutralises the blockers, combine with a decent passive disabler (I'm using Ghost of the Navigator but Prisoner or Madam Fortune could also do the job) and the run-times will drop significantly. If you've got MA Dark Lilith she's also useful as she'll block the revives. Or you could use Killer Prime as his passive inflicts permadeth.

Dont have dark road ed yet, or d lilith :( Currently running

Max gre w niflheim+bespoke
KP w yggs+radiant (doesnt stop all the revives)
Madame fortune w valhalla+alchemy (killer w babs worked also)
Max wickerman w rags+redemption

Works, but slow as sh*t. Just got ghost of navigator, will try.

[MarkyMark]

Works, but slow as sh*t. Just got ghost of navigator, will try.

Try him with Gluttony and the Cosmic Nautical if you've got them.

[Phoenix-7282]

Combining any Eddie without fury and a maxed Odin helps to increase speed. Every wave has either labs or yags and disabling them is needed to get a fast team.

[Geodude]

Try him with Gluttony and the Cosmic Nautical if you've got them.

Tried him with both Gluttony and the Cosmic Nautical, and didn't improve speed. Missing 4 norse awakening shards so cant max awaken my odin, arg. Think I may be sol, and stuck doing my super slow insanity runs and madness. Gonna be a while...

[IronIndy]

I dont have Odin either but fallen icarus with his bespoke works great

[Geodude]

I dont have Odin either but fallen icarus with his bespoke works great

Thx. What other toons/talis r u using with him? Run times?

[IronIndy]

Thx. What other toons/talis r u using with him? Run times?

fallen icarus edd-valhalla,bespoke
wrathchid-light ,cosmic
ghost of navigator-gluts,bespoke
max horus-yggs,bespoke

run times average 1:30

[Geodude]

fallen icarus edd-valhalla,bespoke
wrathchid-light ,cosmic
ghost of navigator-gluts,bespoke
max horus-yggs,bespoke

run times average 1:30

Yes, that did it! Now using this team with GRE, avg 1:20, best 56s. Thx!

[Muzzleloader]

You may try using mark, blight and bespoke on horus. Stopping horus from using his fury may speed it up some

[Geodude]

You may try using mark, blight and bespoke on horus. Stopping horus from using his fury may speed it up some

Yep, this sped it up even further. Got both new toons. Thx for all the tips. U guys rock!

[HuckFinn150]

I just wanted to see how much a newer player, who is playing for free could do in events. I just did dracula's return hard with Mummy Ed, W kicker (forget his name), Corrupt Owl Cultist and S. Desert Guardian. No talisman maxed, but all shared and level 100. Surprisingly, I could auto hard, but madness was out of reach. Better results than I was expecting.

[annouvis25]

bespoke????

[Muzzleloader]

Bespoke is when a cosmic has special attributes when applied to a specific toon or toons. They are usually named after the toon or theme of the toons.

I don't know where the term started, but it is a common shorthand for specific cosmic talisman..

[Saigrim]

Bespoke

AdjectiveBRITISH
made for a particular customer or user.

[Muzzleloader]

I know what the word means. I don't know who started using it or how it stuck for their description in this game.

[Saigrim]

I blame those crazy Brits! ��